Date: October 17, 1972

Time: 2:10 pm – 3:00 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Campaign charges

-Corruption

-Last minute smears

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm.

Food

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Campaign practices

-Charges

-Time constraints

-The White House and President’s role

-George S. McGovern’s campaign

-Washington Post

-Benjamin C. Bradlee

-October 17, 1972 story

-White House allegations

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Issues

-Colson’s conversations with Paul Hall

-Corruption

-McGovern’s appearance and voice

-Comparison with Adlai E. Stevenson, II

-Vietnam War

-McGovern’s policies

-McGovern’s trustworthiness

-The President’s trustworthiness

-Maritime agreement

-Washington Post

-Appeal to leaders

-Attacks against Helen Gahagan Douglas

-Political tactics

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Issues

-McGovern’s proposed defense budget

-Base closures

-Utah, California

-Economic and domestic statements

-George P. Shultz

-Eliot L. Richardson

-John J. Rhodes

-Taxes, welfare

-Probable statements released

-John B. Connally

-Hall’s conversation with Colson

-Amnesty

-Edwin L. Harper, Robert Teeter

-John N. Mitchell

-Youth vote

-Busing

-Unknown person

-Aid to parochial schools

-Amnesty

-Veterans groups

-The President’s view

-The President’s October 16, 1972 appearance before prisoner of war [POW]

families group

-Morality

Alaska

-Airplane crash

-The President’s recent conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

-Will Rogers, Wiley Post

-[Thomas] Hale Boggs, Nicholas J. Begich

-Death proclamations

-Congressional seats

-Memorial service

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Issues

-Watergate

-Anti-trust suit

-International Business Machines Corp. [IBM]

-Announcement

-The President’s view

-Ehrlichman

-Labor

-Amnesty, marijuana, abortion, crime

-Conservatives

-Social compared to economic issues

-1970 comparison

-Taxes

-Real income

-Possibility of an increase

-Surrogates

-Meeting with the Cabinet

-Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor

-Audio-visual clips

-Children

-Credibility

-Reporters

-Richard G. Kleindienst’s call to Colson

-Timing

-Washington Post

-McGovern

-Amnesty

-Hall

-Reports from regional press

McGovern

-Campaign strategy

-Inconsistency

-Charges on corruption

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-Intended speech

-Advertisements

-Vietnam

-Taxes

-Aid to parochial schools

Issues

-Taxes

-Aid to parochial schools

-Concerned Citizens for Non-Public Schools

-[Unknown people], Wellington T. Mara

-Tax credit

-Draft letter

-Robert B. Semple, Jr.

-Northeast

-New York

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s instruction

-Statements targeted to different regions

-Chicago, Detroit

-The President’s veto of the water bill

-Ehrlichman

-Social Security legislation veto

-Budget cost

-Retired people

-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] appropriation veto

-Office of Economic Opportunity

-Water bill

-Ehrlichman

-Suburbs

-Taxes

-The President’s credibility

-Spending-ceiling

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm.

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Colson left at 3:00 pm.